Re: vacuumdb --missing-stats-only and permission issue

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuumdb --missing-stats-only and permission issue
Date: 2025-08-23 03:00:06
Message-ID: aKkutrB4yHWSnE7j@nathan
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 10:59:43AM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> I tested by creating many tables with make installcheck and running
> vacuumdb --missing-stats-only on the regression database.
> Without the patch, the query to find tables to analyze took about 60 ms,
> but with the patch it took 18 seconds. That seems too slow,
> so probably we'll need to tune the query?

Hm. Maybe we should just document that the option requires SELECT
privileges on pg_statistic and pg_statistic_ext_data (which are restricted
to superusers by default). I suspect we have relatively limited
opportunities for tuning the query, and I'd like to avoid invasive changes
to v18 at this point.

--
nathan

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